Jose Tadeo Monagas

Jose Tadeo Monagas (28 October 1784-18 November 1868) was President of Venezuela from 1 March 1847 to 5 February 1851 (succeeding Carlos Soublette and preceding Jose Gregorio Monagas) and from 20 January 1855 to 15 March 1858 (succeeding Monagas and preceding Pedro Gual Escandon). He was a member of the Conservative Party of Venezuela and the Liberal Party of Venezuela.

Biography
Jose Tadeo Monagas was born in Maturin, Venezuela in 1784, the brother of Jose Gregorio Monagas, and he took part in the independence struggle during Spain during the South American Wars of Liberation. Monagas took part in the 1831 war between Gran Colombia and Venezuela, opposing Venezuelan independence. In 1834, he led a reformist uprising against President Jose Maria Vargas, but it was militarily suppressed in November 1835. He went on to serve as President from 1847 to 1851 and from 1855 to 1858; as a liberal, he abolished slavery, ended capital punishment for political crimes, extended suffrage, and limited interest rates. in 1848, Jose Antonio Paez's conservatives assaulted the Venezuelan Congress in reaction to Monagas' reforms, leading to armed conflict. In 1851, Monagas handed over power to his brother Jose Gregorio, and he was re-elected to succeed him in 1854. In 1856, he introduced the telegraph to the country, and he led a 1867 revolution against President Juan Crisostomo Falcon before dying a year later.